"I don't think so," he replied. "Otherwise we'd have seen him before now, it's like..." he paused to think for a moment. "It's like we're seeing whoever it is either only when he wants us to, or when his concentration slips enough his defences fail."

"I don't appreciate the implication," the man said, appearing suddenly in front of them. He was dressed in a rather tatty-looking military uniform, unkempt brown hair obscuring his right air. "I, like you, enjoy my privacy, I had assumed my passage through this room was entirely unseen."

"I'm afraid I don't have a codename," the man replied. "But my name is Jake, my powers are...unusual. Due to a scientific accident my body phases in and out of our reality, not always out of choice on my part."